Overall, bio-plastics have great potential to replace conventional plastics, whereby their qualities lie above all in their sustainability and biodegradability, but also in their often special, nature-like haptics. In the case of bioplastics made from citrus peels, different pectins and other biopolymers ensure, for example, that films feel comparatively velvety. The bioplastic patterns developed in the project consciously reinforce these properties and impressions, for example through special embossing or perforations. By highlighting, usually in everyday disappearing features, these surfaces create a subtle sensitivity for the material and its handling, thereby transferring their special value to the wrapped product, for example when used as packaging material.

Initiated in 2010, the interdisciplinary greenlab laboratory at weißensee kunsthochschule berlin links university projects with practice-oriented research and industry with the aim of inspiring and developing innovative concepts for sustainable and environmentally friendly products and services. In this research-oriented collaboration, sustainable design methods and strategies are to be applied to develop and implement new concepts and answers to ecological, social and cultural questions.